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Peachtree Release Notes

Peachtree Premium™ Accounting 2004
Peachtree Complete® Accounting 2004
Peachtree® Accounting 2004
Peachtree® First Accounting 2004

June 2003

Thank you for your recent purchase of a Peachtree Software product! This document contains important last-minute information and issues not included in the User's Guide, Getting Started Guide, or online Help.

Click here for important last-minute information about this Release.

If you have access to the Internet, visit Peachtree's Web site at www.peachtree.com for additional information on this and other Peachtree Software products and services.

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Copyright and Trademark Notices

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Trademark Notices
Copyright and Trademark Notices

© 1992-2003 Best Software SB, Inc. All rights reserved.

Portions of the Peachtree First Accounting, Peachtree Accounting, Peachtree Complete Accounting, and Peachtree Premium Accounting applications, related products and services, and associated documentation were created by third parties and are hereby acknowledged as follows:

© 1997-2002 Access Softek, Inc.
© 1992-2003 Best Software SB, Inc.
© 1995-2002 Connected Corporation
© 2001 Crystal Decisions, Inc.
© 1998 devSoft, Inc.
© 1994-2002 Inner Media, Inc.
© 1990-2002 Installshield Software, Inc.
© 1994-2002 Macromedia, Inc.
© 1992-2002 Pervasive Software, Inc.
© 1998-2003 Stamps.com Inc.
© 2000-2002 AMYUNI Consultants – AMYUNI Technologies
© 2000 Wintertree Software, Inc.
© 1999-2002 The Apache Software Foundation
© 1998 VideoSoft, Inc.
© 1991-2002 WinZip Computing, Inc.

Trademarks

Peachtree, Peachtree Software, the Peachtree logo, Peachtree Complete, Peachtree First Accounting, Peachtree Today, One-Write Plus, "Get The Insight Behind Your Numbers," and Accounting Behind the Screens are registered trademarks or registered servicemarks of Best Software SB, Inc.  PeachSync, Peachtree Web Accounting, Peachtree Web Transaction Center, Peachtree WebsiteCreator, Peachtree WebsiteTrader, Websitecreator Pro are trademarks of Best Software SB, Inc.  Peachtree Passport, Peachtree Direct Deposit, and ePeachtree are service marks of Best Software SB, Inc.

Timeslips and TAL are registered trademarks of Best Software SB, Inc.  MAS 90 and MAS 200 are registered trademarks of Best Software of California, Inc.  FAS is a trademark of Best Software, Inc.

Microsoft, MS-DOS, Windows, Windows NT, the Windows logo, and the Internet Explorer logo are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and/or other countries. Crystal Reports and the Crystal Decisions logo are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Crystal Decisions or its affiliates. Seagate and the Seagate logo are registered trademarks of Seagate Technology, Inc. Chase and the Chase logo are registered trademarks of the Chase Manhattan Corporation and/or Chase Merchant Services, L.L.C. SurePay and the SurePay logo are registered trademarks and/or service marks of SurePay, L.L.C. The First Data name, logo and related trademarks and service marks, owned by First Data Corporation, are registered and/or used in the United States and/or other countries. Stamps.com, the Stamps.com logo, and Stamps.com Internet Postage are trademarks or registered trademarks of Stamps.com, Inc. ACT! is a registered trademark in the United States and throughout the world, exclusively owned or controlled by Best Software SB, Inc. Connected is a trademark and Powered by Connected is a service mark of Connected Corporation. America Online and AOL are registered trademarks of America Online, Inc. DynaZIP is a trademark of Inner Media, Inc. WinZip is a registered trademark of WinZip Computing, Inc. Director is a registered trademark of Macromedia, Inc. Quicken, QuickBooks, and QuickBooks Pro are registered trademarks of Intuit, Inc.

Other product names mentioned may be service marks, trademarks, or registered trademarks of their respective companies and are hereby acknowledged.


Important Information About This Release

The following is important last-minute information you should be aware of concerning this product.

Contents

What's New in Peachtree 2004

Installation Information

New Procedures

Installation Location

License Agreement and Legal Information

Microsoft Internet Explorer

System Requirements

Multiuser Licenses

America Online, CompuServe, and Other Third-Party Connection Services

Upgrade and Conversion Notes

Employee Name Change

Additional State Withholding

Release 8.0.01 or Lower

Payroll Tax Service Registration

Crystal Reports for Peachtree

Fixed Assets

Peachtree Fixed Assets

FAS for Peachtree

Getting Help and Technical Support

Trademark Notices

What's New in Peachtree 2004

For information on new features in this release, click the What’s New book on the Contents tab of the Peachtree Help window or look up "New Features" in the Peachtree Help index.

New Installation Information

Peachtree Getting Started Guide—New Installation Procedures

Refer to the Getting Started Guide for more information about installing Peachtree.

Installation Location

It is highly recommended that you install Peachtree to its default location during setup. Avoid installing Peachtree to the root directory of a hard drive (for example, C:\). If you install Peachtree to the root directory, setup will run extremely slow. Only install to the root directory if the drive is entirely dedicated to Peachtree.

Peachtree Software License Agreement and Other Legal Information

When you install Peachtree 2004 you will be presented with an updated license agreement. To examine the current version of Peachtree’s license agreement, trademark statements, and other legal information, look up "Legal Notices" in the Peachtree Help index.

•	To access the latest Peachtree Software Privacy Statement, visit Peachtree's Web site at www.peachtree.com/privacypolicy.

Microsoft Internet Explorer

Peachtree requires that Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.x or 6.0 be installed on your computer. Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 is included on the Peachtree CD and will automatically install.

System Requirements

For the latest system requirements for Peachtree products, point your browser to www.peachtree.com and look up your product.

The Peachtree application and Peachtree Help are best viewed with monitors that use the following monitor display settings:

•	Color Palette: Minimum of High Color (16 bit); we no longer support 256 colors

•	Desktop Area: 800 by 600 pixels or higher

•	Font Size: Small (Peachtree will not display properly with a large font setting)

Multiuser Licenses

(Peachtree Complete Accounting, Peachtree Premium Accounting, and Peachtree Premium Accounting – Accountants’ Edition only) As stated in the Peachtree Software License Agreement, each person must purchase and register a licensed copy of Peachtree. Peachtree Software provides a multiuser value pack which can be purchased and registered one time for up to 5 workstations on your network. For more information on purchasing multiuser solutions, search for "multiuser" in Peachtree Help’s online index or visit our Web site at www.peachtree.com.

America Online, CompuServe, Prodigy and other Third-Party Connection Services

If you use a third-party connection service (such as America Online, CompuServe, or Prodigy), select the Use direct Internet connection (LAN, ISDN, ADSL, AOL, etc.) option in the Internet Connection Setup window. Do not select the Use Proxy Server check box. Before you connect to the Internet within Peachtree Today or check online for Peachtree product updates, you must remember to start the third-party software (for example AOL) and log on to their network. Once you are logged on, try accessing the Internet within Peachtree. To learn more about setting up Peachtree with these services, search for "Internet, using America Online" in Peachtree’s online Help index.

Upgrade and Conversion Notes

Employee Name Change and Employee Name

Beginning in Release 9.02, Peachtree changed the employee name field from a single name field to three fields for last name, middle initial, and first name. This was largely to support changes to the federal W-2 form. If you converted from a release prior to 9.02, your employee names were converted to the new format (first name, middle initial, last name) when you installed Release 2004.

Potential problems can occur with this conversion if you have previously used a non-standard method of formatting employee names, or with compound surnames, or extraneous punctuation or typos. For more information, look up "employees, Changes to the Employee Name Field" in the Peachtree Help index.

Additional State Withholding

If you used Peachtree prior to Release 2004, you may have used the state Additional Withholding field for other purposes. For those in Arizona, California, Georgia, Indiana, Louisiana, and Puerto Rico, you need to copy the amount previously stored in the state Additional Withholding field to the Special 2 Allowances box in the Withholding Information table on the Maintain Employees window. Then, enter the actual additional state withholding in the state Additional Withholding field. For more information, look up "additional withholding, Additional State Withholdings" in the Peachtree Help index.

Release 8.0.01 or Lower

If you are a previous Peachtree user (Release 8.0.01 or lower) and have set up user IDs and passwords, please note the following: After converting your existing company data to the new Peachtree 2004 format, all user ID profiles are given access to the new Credit Card Center window--even if they were previously set up with no access to the A/R program area. If company administrators do not want to give users access to this area, you must open the Maintain Users window and remove A/R access again.

Payroll Tax Service Registration

In Release 2003, a new menu option under Peachtree’s Help menu was added for registration of the Payroll Tax Update Service. Peachtree requires registration for this service. If you are upgrading from a prior Peachtree release, if you purchased a subscription to the tax service for the current tax year, and if you installed the latest tax service update, then you are not required to register your tax service subscription in this latest release. To learn more about the Payroll Tax Update Service, search for "tax service" in Peachtree Help’s online index or visit our Web site at www.peachtree.com. To subscribe to the Payroll Tax Update Service, call 1-800-336-1420.

Crystal Reports for Peachtree

Peachtree Accounting 2004 and Peachtree Complete Accounting 2004 come with a free evaluation version of Crystal Reports for Peachtree. You can use the evaluation version for 30 days. Note: Peachtree First Accounting is not compatible with Crystal Reports for Peachtree.

Peachtree Premium Accounting 2004 and Peachtree Premium Accounting – Accountants’ Edition come with a free full version of Crystal Reports for Peachtree.

To install Crystal Reports for Peachtree (Evaluation or Full Version), insert your Peachtree CD in your CD-ROM drive and select the Crystal Reports for Peachtree option. To order Crystal Reports for Peachtree, call Peachtree Software at 1-800-336-1420 Monday through Friday, 8:30 A.M. to 5:30 P.M., eastern time or visit our Web site at www.peachtree.com.

If you used Crystal Reports for Peachtree with a prior Release, you need to update your customized reports to the new Peachtree 2004 data formats. (This essentially allows you access to new or modified data fields introduced in Peachtree 2004.) To learn how to quickly update your customized reports, look up "convert, custom Crystal reports to new Peachtree Release format" in the Peachtree Help index

Fixed Assets

Peachtree Fixed Assets

Peachtree will no longer support the Peachtree Fixed Assets product after November 30, 2004. In order to continue to provide our customers with fixed assets business solutions, two new applications have been developed to replace Peachtree Fixed Assets: FAS for Peachtree and FAS FirstStep for Peachtree. For more information about these products go to www.peachtree.com/fixedassets.

FAS for Peachtree

This product is FREE with Peachtree Complete Accounting 2004, Peachtree Premium Accounting 2004, and Peachtree Premium Accounting 2004 – Accountants’ Edition. FAS for Peachtree allows you to manage and depreciate up to 200 assets. To install and/or convert to FAS for Peachtree, select the option from the installation CD Welcome screen. For detailed instructions, please refer to your Peachtree Getting Started Guide. For more information on how to link your Peachtree company to FAS for Peachtree, refer to the FAS for Peachtree documentation.

For information on new features and enhancements with this release, click the What’s New book on the Contents tab of the Peachtree Help window or look up "New Features" in the Peachtree Help index. For data conversion procedures and notes, refer to the Getting Started Guide.


Getting Help and Technical Support

If you are having problems, you have several options for getting assistance:

•	Look up the topic in the Getting Started Guide and User's Guide.

•	Press F1 or Help buttons in any Peachtree window or message to open the Peachtree Help facility.

Peachtree Customer Support Services is committed to providing its customers with updated technical tips and other helpful information on the entire Peachtree Software family of products. If you require additional assistance, you can browse the Peachtree knowledge base of technical tip documents directly from the Peachtree Web site at www.peachtree.com/support. Also at the Peachtree Customer Support Web site are numerous Customer Support options and membership plans to get immediate assistance.


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